Sometimes it’s possible to go years without experiencing any major surprises. However, just when we think that we’ve seen it all, something new and amazing shows up and catapults our minds back into overdrive.
The truth is that there are still all sorts of unusual things taking place across the world every day, and most of them, we are completely unaware of.
From quadruple rainbows to fire tornados, this list includes some of the most bizarre natural and man-made phenomena that we could find. You probably think that life is pretty straightforward, but let us reassure you, these photos are almost guaranteed to change your opinion.
1. Winding Tracks
These train tracks in New Zealand weren’t always so crooked. The random twists and turns are a result of a massive earthquake that hit the region. Surprisingly, none of the rails snapped, however, they did get bent into some really awkward positions.
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2. Giant Mushroom
If you thought that giant mushrooms were just a thing of fantasy movies such as Alice in Wonderland, you thought wrong. It turns out, there are a lot of real-life equivalents. Some mushrooms are so big that just lifting them up in the air results in a pretty serious muscle workout.
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AxelDe
3. Underwater Being
This photo was taken of a woman swimming underwater. However, from the surface, it’s hard to tell what sort of life form it is. The distortion caused by the water makes her face look like a crazy blob.
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bimbofication
4. Quadruple Rainbow
It’s pretty common to see a partial rainbow after a rainstorm. Less common are full rainbows… but four full rainbows at once? Now, that is a once in a lifetime occurrence.
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Lawlnut
5. Icy Waters
Here we have a frozen lake in Switzerland complete with thousands of geometric triangle patterns. The ice formed into the most unusual crystals. The image looks like it was created in Photoshop, but we assure you, it’s completely natural.
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UdderTime
6. Square Coin
In the Western world, we automatically think of coins as being little round disks. However, in reality, the circular shape of coins is pretty arbitrary. In Singapore, the five-cent piece is shaped like a square.
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walnutsrgay
7. Skin Boots
The fashion world has always been known for pushing the boundaries of what is considered normal. However, these exotic boots take that idea to a whole new level. They are both skin-tight and designed to look like skin. Technically, they are made out of silicon.
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BananaLana_
8. Professional Arm-Wrestler
Imagine one side of your body ending up hundreds of times more muscular than the other side. That’s what happened to this world arm-wrestling champ. He focused entirely on training the one side that matters.
9. Alien Lemon
We think of lemons in general as being little oval-shaped fruits. However, this variety of citrus fruit is called Buddha’s Hand. Similar to lemons, it is a citron, however, it looks much stranger.
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10. Jagged Nails
This nail style would be great for Halloween. It’s both fascinating and horrific. As an everyday style, we wouldn’t recommend it though. It’s just not practical to be sawing through things with your fingers all of the time.
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The_Inquisitrix
11. Car Trafficking
Many of us are used to seeing giant trucks with cars placed on horizontal platforms. However, in Africa, sometimes they have to improvise. They transport vehicles across the continent in any way that they can.
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12. Appliance Combo
Normally, the stove, fridge, and sink are all completely separate. However, if you belong to the camp of people who believe in minimalism, that concept makes zero-sense. Why not combine them all into one?
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tmc2996
13. Long Bread Slice
There is no real reason why sliced bread has to be in small squares. It’s more practical for making a sandwich, however, at the end of the day, bread is bread, right? It certainly looks strange to be shaped like this though.
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RottenRodent
14. Mushroom Structure
This mushroom is bigger than some children are. They could literally use it as a jungle gym. It has tons of fun fungi platforms, making it perfect for climbing on.
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Konstruktor33
15. Freak Banana
This unlikely mini-banana bunch included four bananas in one. They all shared a single peel. However, inside were four distinct fruits.
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sigglet
16. Peeled Chicken Nuggets
Chicken nuggets are one of the most delicious meals, although, they aren’t for everyone. This guy can’t stand the breading, so he peels his nuggets like he would an orange. Only the ground chicken and sauces are consumed.
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reallysoggybiscuitz
17. Field Of Spiders
When flooding takes place, it sends thousands of spiders in Australia fleeing across the landscape. They leave a giant trail of webs in their wake. It’s a person with arachnophobia’s worst nightmare.
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DoctorKitty
18. Sausage Salesman
At first glance, we thought this was a large garden hose. However, it turns out that it’s just a butcher shop that sells sausage by the foot. You can slice off whatever size piece you like from the giant spool.
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kuchka70
19. Delicious Chicken
Did you know that some people actually eat their chicken medium rare? They treat it just like a steak. It seems like an unfathomable idea to most of us, but maybe we are all just missing out.
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Memeulous
20. Elevated Tree
The ground all around this tree totally eroded away. However, it didn’t stop the tree from growing anyway. It continued to thrive, just like it always has.
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Imgur
21. Pooh & Friends
The author of the Winnie-the-Pooh book series named his son own Christopher Robin. These are the stuffed animals he gave to Christopher as a child. Now, they are all preserved in a public library display case.
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bigmeat
22. Hornet Nightmare
A bunch of hornets decided to build their nest around an old wooden mask in a shed. It took on a nightmarish appearance. The whole thing looks like it belongs in a horror movie.
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panel-f-media
23. Solar Eclipse View
The International Space Station captured this stunning image of a solar eclipse as seen from space. The large black marking is actually the moon’s shadow on the Earth. If it were viewed from down below, it would be a blackout.
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HolyShitZoom
24. Turtle Varieties
Turtles come in all shapes and sizes. That’s what this picture proves. Every one of them is unique and beautiful in its own way.
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alonelycuteboy
25. Melted Duck
Rubber duckies are both cute and fun. However, we’re warning you now, we wouldn’t recommend leaving them on the hood of your car on a hot summer day. If you do, the end result will make you very sad.
the car was too hot pic.twitter.com/95Szcoffob
— surfs up (@pengicitis1) June 28, 2019
26. Panda Heart
Pandas are absolutely adorable, especially baby pandas. However, you know what’s even more adorable than a baby panda? The answer is easy — two baby pandas!
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aerowindwalker
27. Half-Burnt Echidna
The echidna, also known as the spiny anteater, is one of the most bizarre-looking creatures. This one is extra special though. A little known fact is that when faced with a fire, Echnidas don’t try to run away. They burrow in the ground and let their spiky exterior take the brunt of the damage.
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Echidna CSI
28. Colonel Sanders Bench
This bench in KFC sure was a good idea. At least, that’s what the company thought at the time. It’s both really wide, and really creepy.
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29. Homesick Parrot
Is the parrot asleep or just homesick? We aren’t entirely sure. However, on some level, it has to miss its ancestral home. Life in the pet store just isn’t the same as life in the jungle.
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Mymbaka
30. Flat Building
From this location, it looks like the building only has two dimensions. However, it turns out, it’s just an illusion. The walls behind it are angled diagonally.
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31. Donut Snowball
When snowballs form naturally, oftentimes, the middle part collapses as they roll down the hill. It creates these cool donut shapes. They only form under very specific conditions when the wind and angle of the hill are just right.
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DoctorKitty
32. Strange Cloud
This cloud hanging in the air above Reykjavik, Iceland is mysteriously egg-shaped. Did an alien species create it? It’s pretty unlikely, however, we wouldn’t want to investigate it too closely.
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IcelandicCartBoy
33. Leaf Dress
A group of students in China made this beautiful dress using 6000 yellow leaves. It’s not only elegant but also completely natural. While it won’t last forever, it was made from entirely free materials.
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gudsol
34. Smoke Man
Despite what it may look like, it’s not actually a real floating smoke person. The photograph was captured by filling a balloon with smoke and then popping it at the exact second that the camera was snapping the shot.
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SPYDABLAKK
35. Frozen Sea
These crazy ice crystals stretch as far as the eye can see. They are scattered all across the sea. They are the result of a very thin layer of ice on top of the water.
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DoctorKitty
36. Rare Opals
Here we have some natural opals that appear as though they could be a prop in the movie Avatar. The rocks are glowing with ancient energy. The blue rainbow colors permeate deep within the rock layers.
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The National Opal Collection
37. Food Chain
In this photo, a caiman can be seen eating a tiger fish. At the same time, the tiger fish is eating another smaller fish. It’s all just part of the circle of life.
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kennedyOgyrec
38. Ominous Skies
Can you tell what is going on in this image? If you look closely, you’ll see that it’s a plane flying across the sky during a solar eclipse. It’s not science-fiction, folks. Stuff like this actually happens.
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chemicalbody
39. Fish Art
These unusual patterns are scattered all over the seafloor in Japan. For years, people were baffled by them. We now know though that they are the result of small male pufferfish flapping their fins near the sand.
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DoctorKitty
40. Mushroom Iceberg
Leave it to National Geographic to once again stun us with an amazing nature photo. The picture shows several gigantic icebergs located in Western Greenland. They look like massive frozen mushrooms.
41. Fire Tornado
These occur whenever very specific wind conditions are present during a fire. It causes the fiery flames to whip up into the air in a whirlwind. It’s actually shocking how close the firefighter is standing to the dangerous phenomenon.
42. Bearded Streetlight
It must be absolutely freezing out. How else would these random icicles form? Under normal circumstances, the heat of the light would quickly melt them off.
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golovoeb
43. Missing Wrinkles
All of this guy’s fingers are wrinkled from soaking in the water except for one. It turns out, it’s because of nerve damage. The injury prevents his skin from wrinkling in that location.
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Faxmaq
44. Smoky Sky
Fire is extremely destructive, but it can also be quite beautiful. That’s what this photo shows. The birds are illuminated by the fire below as they fly towards the giant black clouds of smoke.
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Imgur
45. Bird Tongue
No, it’s not a wiggling worm dangling out of the bird’s mouth. That is its tongue! It’s incredibly long, even by bird standards.
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welcometosuplexcity
46. White Grizzly
Unsurprisingly, most brown bears and grizzlies are brown… at least typically. This one’s fur is a ghostly white color. If it wasn’t for the warm forest scenery, we might suspect that it’s a polar bear.
47. Crazy Moth
Insects come in all sorts of different configurations. Some of them are fairly normal. Others though, like this moth during mating season, are out of this world.
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48. Before & After
Thanks to all that wool, sheep look much bigger than they really are. To illustrate this fact, check out the sheep on the left compared to those on the right. It’s the before and after sections of their pen during sheep shearing season.
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49. Fairy Circles
This barren African landscape is covered in hundreds of strange circles called fairy circles. They are believed to be the result of termites living underneath the soil and eating through the vegetation. This causes those sections of the soil to remain extra-moist during periods of rain.
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DoctorKitty
50. Crab Migration
There are over 120 million crabs that live on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. Every year, the crabs migrate across the island to the ocean to begin mating. They have to put up barriers along the roads to prevent traffic jams.
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DoctorKitty
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